Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] be [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian has joined the faculty from South Devon College of Arts and Technology , where he was senior lecturer for 25 years , teaching BTEC National and HND courses in hotel and catering institutional management , a course now franchised to the University of Plymouth . |
| 2 | Although they are good birds for many beginners , they cost about £700 , which makes them too expensive for all but the most dedicated . |
| 3 | They 're easy to sail short handed in strong winds , so they 're excellent value for couples . |
| 4 | ‘ Try to keep me away , ’ he had whispered , ‘ although it is exquisite torture for me these days , my dear McAllister , to have you so near , and be unable to stroke every bit of your delectable body . |
| 5 | Numbers — Although it 's good fun for three or more people to abseil down a rope at the same time , normally no more than two should be attached to the same descendeur . |
| 6 | I have been preaching a few times and invitations are coming in , so it is good experience for me . |
| 7 | The cost of recharging the Super Dustbuster is minimal : it uses less than half the amount of electricity used by a light bulb , so it 's good value for money as well as being environmentally friendly . |
| 8 | Tom would n't wear rain gear because he could n't find a set to really fit his 6ft 3in frame , so it was hard work for me to keep him dry . |
| 9 | Similarly , if you are buying Mollies for a freshwater setup , make sure that the dealer is n't stocking them in brackish water . |
| 10 | cos we was late home for tea last night were n't we ? |
| 11 | Volunteers can help clients more effectively if they are allocated time for tasks other than direct interviewing . |
| 12 | They sat down at the table , and took out of their pockets packets of cigarettes , lighters and calculators , placing these objects carefully in front of them as if they were necessary equipment for some game they were about to play . |
| 13 | But if they were strange times for us , I can hardly imagine what they were like for my mother . |
| 14 | Mission work to civilise the slaves and the extension of responsibilities to the labourers for their own work were only thought likely to be successful if they were cumulative experiences for the slaves . |
| 15 | This poem is funny because it treats people as if they were second-hand cars for sale . |
| 16 | ‘ As for value for money , it was n't per se my main concern but reorienting it from an activity-based approach of what the cost of something was to VFM in terms of delivery to the patient — evaluating what we were doing well in the sense you or I as doctor-patient would expect , the outcomes of value to the patient , establishing how much it costs to deliver ( something we could n't do but are better at now ) and then asking if it is reasonable value for money or , more interestingly , why it is cheaper in one place than another , benchmarking it . ’ |
| 17 | But if it is bad news for borrowers , investors have never had it so good . |
| 18 | for which one it shows I 'm afraid , my I ask for er if it 's required certificate for counsel maybe required for taxation later on . |
| 19 | Rostov thought about Alexei 's behaviour and wondered if it was human nature for sons to hate their fathers , even when they did not know them very well . |
| 20 | ‘ Most ads , unless they are domestic ones for washing powder or food , are directed at girls under twenty-five . |
| 21 | These 34 patients were referred ( 68% by consultants from other hospitals ) for non-operative treatment because they were high risk for surgery . |
| 22 | Till it is standard weight for roast or bacon |
| 23 | well she said because it 's good security for the , for the girls . |
| 24 | Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about . |
| 25 | And industries such as British Steel dramatically improved their performance in the early 1980s , while they were nationalized industries for whom privatization at that stage was still a distant prospect . |
| 26 | International distributorship agreements will also fall under s 26 since they are pure agreements for the sale of goods , and thus fall within the SGA ( see SGA s 1(3) ) . |
| 27 | Or let him acknowledge that while it is rational doubt for him as a liberal humanist to criticize the Buddhist , the Marxist or the Christian , it might equally be a rational doubt for the Marxist to criticize him as a humanist . |
| 28 | You should also be aware that , whilst it is accepted practice for the approach letter to be written on the anonymous basis proposed above , you are likely to receive a more positive response from a target company should the circumstances of a particular approach allow you to relax your requirement for anonymity . |
| 29 | This tells you whether you 're generating money for shareholders or where they consume you . |
| 30 | Whether it is affirmative orders for national schemes or negative orders for local schemes , the procedure is very unsatisfactory . |